My favorite Maya Angelou poem begins,
"There once was a man from Nantucket...".

Say what?
That does not rime.

Yes, it is indeed my responsibility, my right, my privilege. And as an American, I will be voting for Mitt Romney.

Duke has brought her time and time again to speak to the first convocation of each freshman class. Let the brainwashing begin.

How does anyone.. Even a very special , protected status person with an output of rather ordinary grievance angst .. Pen anything ? E mail is tapped..pounded or hit.. It is smacked around currency of the immediate..

Maya is one of the most talent free bad poets and her work makes my head hurt. I do not care who she votes for or if she votes at all. The witless moron in the wh must go and this election is too important to listen to her babbling.

I hope she's finally learned to speak English.

Ms Angelou is to Poetry as Thomas Kincaid was to Art a triumph of mawkishness and marketing.

The same Maya who loved Bill Clinton. Enough said.

Wow... I thought she was dead.

I find it quite telling that in her long list of group allegiances she listed "American" last.

If she isn't writing as an old black woman why did she make it a point to remind everyone that's what she is? I notice she didn't remind everyone she's an untalented affirmative action "poet."

Oh Maya Angelou. Growing up in NC we were always force fed her garbage poetry in school. While living in Winston, I drove by her house on several occasions. Of course, when I say house I mean mansion situated on one of the most expensive streets in town. It was one of her THREE homes (complete with a Rolls in the garage) that was featured in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago. I don't have a problem with her real estate interests, she can do what she wants with her money. But I do have a problem with the fact that she is race baiter and an elitist who is worshiped by NC school teachers as the state's greatest writer. She's isn't.

Posted from my iPhone, please pardon any typos.

Oh please

#1, that's priceless! I've never really appreciated poetry...but, then again, I never appreciated Maya Angelou for much of anything. Her stuff is like rap...senseless ghetto garbage that's hard on the ears. But, there IS an arse for every seat...I guess.

Hey look everyone, she made a success of herself (of some sort) with marginal talent and some sort of ability to get noticed, for whatever reasons. Go for it, Maya, though I find you tiresome and banal.

Maya, you do not represent anyone but yourself unless they choose to let you. That does not include me or anyone I know.
I don't know you or care to so buzz off and go sing kum ba ya along with your oh so hip drumming circle.

This move reminds me of how glad I am Oprah retired! Just think how she would've propped up this presidency the last few months! Maya Angelou would have been a big part of it. Now she's reduced to a campaign e-mail!

God DOES answer prayer!!

She should have offered a CD of her calypso singing as a premium for donations... like PBS does.

I am sorry...but she is a Racist!

I still chuckle about her reading of that poem she wrote, at Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration. It was a hoot!

Maya Angelou: An enima wrapped in mystery talking in circles

The real name of this prostitute-turned-"poet":
Margaret Ann Johnson.

Yes, Margaret Ann Johnson changed her name, and presto, became this exotic-sounding creature, "Maya Angelou."

But while it is easy to change your name, it's not quite such a sure thing to declare yourself a "poet" or a "journalist." (See Wikipedia entry on Ms. Johnson's many "occupations.")

Ms. Johnson may have fooled academics and publishers into accepting her self-proclaimed professions. Most of the rest of us see her for what she is: A fraud.

A female version of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. Scam artists.

Hacked her email and found this ...

Voice of the People
Bringer of angst
Barack, I clutch you to my bosom.

Michelle, strong, proud, lobster-eating Sister you bring forth a new world of entitlements.

Will you stay?
Will you go?

That is for the Fates to decide and they will in due course.

But until then, know that

You suck.

She has the fixed grin of a liar.

Black poetry? Piece-a cake.

Is you is or is you ain't
gonna slop dat fence wiff paint?

Donchoo make me tell you 'gin.
Ah bounce 'dis bat agains' yo shin.

When ah git back it bes' be done,
or gettin' dis bruise (whap!)
will seem like fun.

I remember her address at Bill Clinton's inaugural (gag): We rise, We rise! and so forth.

Well, Maya, now we rise to vote for Mitt.

Maya Angelou a pedlar of ebonic drivel and lore,
is nothing more than a pompous old bore.

Her writings non sensical with a left leaning tilt ,
is consumed by liberals to assuage their racial guilt.

Go back in your hole you literary hack,
I'm voting for Romney to get my county back.

Gag!

As #22 said, that was the first thing I though of, her 1993 Inauguration poem for Bill Clinton. 'I the Rock'...Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtw62Ah2zY